Undergarment.



A. G. VELASKO. UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17, 1911.

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UNDERGARMEN'T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13,1914.

Application flled J'une 17, 1911. Serial No. 633,677.

To all whom it may concern:

Ile it known that I, AooLPH G. VELASKO, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new 5 and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description. I

This invention relates to certain improvements in undergarments and refers more particularly to ladies union suits.

The ordinary light weight union suit for ladies is usually made from circular knit fabric of uniform width cut to the desired length and also slit upwardly and centrally from the bottom to form the legs and suitable slits or openings at the junctions of the inner sides of the legs wit-h the main body. The legs therefore hang in substantially straight parallel lines from the trunk so that when the garment was worn the excessive girth of the hips of the wearer caused this portion of the garment to stretch to such an extent as to produce wide gaps or openings at the front and back. Various devices have been proposed to overcome this objectionable feature such as securing extra gussets and extra oblong inserts 1n the crotch and inner sides of the legs so as to increase the fullness and compensate for excessive lateral stretching of this portion of the garment. It has been found, however, that these gussets and extra inserts not only do not prevent such gaping or opening but that they invariably roll up 'or bunch between the legs and cause more-or less annoyance and irritation to the wearer.

The main object, therefore, of my present invention is to obviate these objectionable results by forming the legs from separate circular-knit-tubes each of greater width thanhalf the width of the trunk and then cutting and fitting them right and left to the main body so as to stand out at an angle to each other and to said body with their inner sides over-lapping sufficiently to prevent gaping when the garment is worn. In other words I have sought to produce a garment of this class with greater normal fullness or girth at the hips than at the bust and at the same time to provide this port-ion of the garment and inner sides of the'legs withintegral overlapping flaps capable of maintaining their natural posijaoent portion of the body when the garment is in use.

A further object is to make the rear portions of the legs of greater width than their front portions to produce a greater degree of lap or fullness at the back than at thefront so as to conform more easily and naturally to the shape of the body without liability of opening or gaping at the middle and at the same time permitting the legs to hang naturally from the waist.

A still further object is'to unite the legs to the trunk or main body in such manner as to preserve the full elasticity of the fabric at the hips without in any way straining the seams and also to position these seams so as to more readily follow the curved lines or contour of the front and the back of the body near'the hips and thighs.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the garment will be brought out-in the following description.

In the drawingsFigures 1 and 2 are respectively front and back views of a ladys undergarmentembodying the various features of my invention. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively front and back views of the main body or trunk. Figs. 5 and 6 are opposite face views of one of the legs. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view of the garment taken on line 77, Fig. 1.

This garment comprises a body or trunk A having front and back portions a a" united at their edges, and leg portions B-B having front and back portions b?).

The body A is preferably made of circu lar-knit fabric but is afterward cut away on lines c0 to form sleeve 0 enings while the side edges are cut inwar ly on curvedlines d-d and reunitedby stitching or otherwise to form the waist or bust.

The lower edge of the front portion w is cut inwardly and downwardly from the opposite side edges on substantially straight converging lines ff of equal length so that if produced they would meet at or near the lon itudinal center of the garment but preferably terminate short of the point of convergence and the apex is cut off transversely on line --g.- thereby forming a truncated V-shape extension F integral with the original body and adapted to be united by stitching or otherwise to the correspondin front portions -bof the legs B. T e legs --B- are also preferably formed of separate circular-knit fabric of greater width than half the width of the ody A-- so as to overlap each other at length of the line gso as to form over- The upper edges of the front portions of the legs including the flaps G are stitched to the corresponding lower edges of the extension F to complete the front portion of the garment. The upper edges of the back portions of the legs are cut in- Wardly from their outer side edges on short straight lines nn approximately equal to the length of the line h-h and are then cut upwardly and inwardly on straight converging lines nrt of about equal lengths corresponding to the lengths of the lines hh thus forming inverted V-shape ex tensions H which are lapped upon each other and fit into the corresponding V-shape re-' cess in the lower edge 'of the back of the trunk- These overlapping back portions of the legs constitute flaps which are considerably wider than the overlapping front flaps to allowfor the greater girth measurement of this part of the body withoutliability o gaping when the garment is worn.

The flaps of one leg are interposed'between the" corresponding flaps of the other leg so as to avoid any possibility of rolling up or bunching between the legs.

It will be observed that the seams joining the legs to the trunk extend from the central front apex g.- at the crotch laterally and upwardly in opposite directions around the hips and return inwardly and upwardly to a point in the center. back some distance above the apex -g thereby producing the front downwardly projecting tapered extension F and the rear upwardly projecting tapered extensions H. By this construction the garment retains the full elasticity of the fabric around the hips where the stretching effect is most severe and at the same time the increased width at the hips produced by the angular disposition of the leg portions together with the V-shape exten- 810118 F and H prevents excessive stretching portion. Furthermore these diagonal seams at the back establish the amount of overlap of the back flaps and maintain said flaps in over lapping relation with less liability of rolling or bunching than would be possible in a construction where the Width of the upper ends of the back flap, straight across the hips are narrower than the pertions of the flaps below the waist or hips.

What I claim is:

1. A three-part union suit composed of a tubular body and oppositely flaring leg members united to said body at the waist byupwardly converging seams at the back and by downwardly converging seams at the front, the leg members having below said seam overlapping flaps both at the front and back of the garment.

2. A three-part union suit composed of a tubular body and oppositely flaring leg members united to said body at the waist by reversely-disposed diagonal seams at both the front and the back, said seams converging in opposite directions, the leg members having below said seams overlapping flaps both at the front and the back of the-garment.

A three-part union suit composed of a tubular body and oppositely flaring leg members .united to said body at the waist by reversely disposed diagonal seams at both the front and back, the leg members having below said seams overlapping flaps both at the front and back of the arment, the degree of the overlap of the g H. E. CHASE, E. F. Srmnme.

aps at the back I at the waist line being substantially equal 

